How Unschoolers Own the World

What comes to mind when someone mentions nature studies, famous artists, or living books? Charlotte Mason?

What about classical novels, The Great Books or Latin? Classical education?

Do you think about unit studies when you hear someone is exploring a topic in many different ways?

And what about notebooking? Perhaps someone who writes down details of their learning is using this method.

We often associate resources and learning techniques with particular homeschooling methods, don’t we? However, Charlotte Mason doesn’t own all the famous artworks, the Latin language doesn’t belong exclusively to classical homeschoolers, notebooking homeschoolers aren’t the only people who own notebooks, and unit studies isn’t the only way to look at a topic from multiple angles.

We don’t have to use a homeschool method to appreciate art, keep a nature journal, dive into the classics, keep a notebook or read living books. We can retell a story we’ve read, draw what we’ve seen, memorise quotes and poems that make our hearts sing, collect interesting facts in a notebook, travel from English to science without even realising it while exploring a topic, and discuss a classical book around the kitchen table, coffee mug in hand, without adopting a homeschooling method. All these things belong to the world where unschoolers live.

We can dip into everything the world offers as we follow our curiosity or our needs.

Each homeschooling method adopts particular learning techniques. It picks and chooses the resources it values the most. It borrows things from the world; it doesn’t own them.

But unschoolers? Unschoolers use everything on offer in any way they like.

Unschoolers own the whole world.

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